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We've been outscored 16-3 over last 19 points.

Announcer--Texas wants to do anything to avoid a fifth set. You might as well just flip a coin. Me--not this year. We're 0-4 in those.

No Swindle, and very little Kahahawai. Flu bug hit the team?

Set finished with back to back aces sent at OU player who was in the net on our 23rd point. Gotta be hard to shake off a streak like that. 25-19 Texas. 2-1 sets/

Solo block by Singletary just after coming down after her own middle hit that was sent back quickly. Great play. 19-13 Texas. OU timeout.

What a blast by Ames. 12-10 Texas. 14-11 and OU timeout now.

Wow. Reese Emerick appearing on the stat line.

Just got back from harvesting pecans. Swindle hurt, I take it?

Hedges are no defense to fans wanting to storm the field.

State of art agroid defense has allowed 530 yards tonight to the team that came into the game 96th in the country in total offense.

Bama has the advantage because they can take weapons to bars?

Just missed getting the ball. Too bad qb's head was in the way.

8 yards per carry, 40% completion rate, so you throw two incompletions to receivers at the line of scrimmage instead of trying to pound it on the ground, saving Agroids about a minute and 20 seconds.

I think it would be great if we could have the review booth send medical teams onto the field to conduct a full diagnosis to determine if the injury is legit. That would really speed up the game.

Reed!!!!!!

Sure is nice to get to play the bottom 6 teams in the conference.

I'm hoping for 400+

SMU is currently nuking Pitt, so while Pitt is likely to drop from the conference unbeatens, SMU is likely to stay there with Miami and Clemson. Those three teams won't play each other this year. Just for s***s and giggles, imagine they all finish the ACC regular season undefeated, and one of them misses the championship game. Bloated conferences are dumb.

Strip sack with 10 seconds left in the half negated by defensive holding.

And now an Agroid tackled a USCe receiver by the helmet and whacked him the head when he was on the ground.

This s*** proves 16 team conferences are stupidly unwieldly.

Reed has almost as many incompletions on handoffs as on passes.

1) We went from a single player acting as the setter on the floor at all times to rotating two setters in and out. After winning a natty with a freshman setter who was a master (mistress) of dumping the ball over when the pass came close to the set, it was a weird decision to bring in another setter to split time. Elliott is a hall of fame coach, and I'm just a boob posting on the internet, but I still have a hard time understanding that one. 2) We did just come off a run of winning 17 straight sets in conference, including two road sweeps against ranked teams, so this might just be a rut. 3) Our back to back losses came in very different fashions. A&M had some middle blockers who so dominated Ames that Elliott benched her in favor of Bunton. That switch didn't save the match, but Ames was getting embarrassed, and most of what A&M managed against us came from middle hitters. By comparison, we blew tonight mainly by flubbing serve returns. Our outside hitting wasn't at peak form, but it was the inability to cover the back that was the difference tonight.' 4) Skinner is a terrific hitter and marvelous all around player, but she was awful on the back row tonight. She now leads us in receiving errors, despite receiving a little more than half of the serves that each Halter and Wenaas have. If she isn't a big hitter out of the back row this year, and she hasn't been, then why is she there? 5) Speaking of back row hitting, I didn't see any of that tonight. Skinner is a great weapon hitting out of the back row, but did she get even a single swing from there? If she did, then I missed it. 6) Maybe it is just back to back crappy games. We had 8 days off. Rust? Complacency? Lack of focus? Or maybe it is just due to playing too many front line players on the back row, even if they aren't getting it done back there. I love Ms. Skinner as a volleyball player. She is an amazing athlete. She jumps like a flea and can hit rocket shots, and her all around game is usually sufficient to justify her staying on the floor at all times to keep her offensive power on the floor and save rotation for different positions, but right now I would tell all servers to target her if I was an opposing coach. She pretty much whiffed on three returns tonight. Just saying. Like I said before, I'm not panicking, but tonight should be a serious wake-up call to the team to keep its collective head in the game every point.

At this point, I'm not panicking, but I'm kind of sick about what I just saw. Atrocious back row defense. Service handling was abysmal.

Wenaas overpassed the return. 13-9. Another bad return. Miz kill. 5 match points. Skinner kill. 14-10. Singletary called for attacking ball over the net. Match.